Are violence risk assessment tools clinically useful?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 301-307

  Carroll, Andrew ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forensic; Risk assessment; Violence

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; VALIDITY; VIOLENCE;

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34248153277     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701213237     Document Type: Review

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